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Henry Clay Tower

BIRTH: 25 Jun 1841, Ira, Rutland, Vermont
DEATH: 23 Sep 1923, Rutland, Rutland, Vermont
BURIAL: Riverside Cemetery, Ira, Rutland, Vermont
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Father: Joseph Tower (20 Dec 1811 - ____)
Mother: Sarah Ann Bates (28 Mar 1821 - 1 May 1872)

Family 1: Almira Wilkinson (1 May 1845 - 8 Jan 1873)

MARRIAGE: 22 Jan 1863

Clayton Henry Tower (1 Jan 1865 - 25 May 1877)
Herbert Tower (5 Jan 1867 - 25 May 1877)
+Sarah Emeline Tower (11 Jul 1870 - 26 Mar 1951)
Tower (4 Jan 1873 - 4 Jan 1873)

Family 2: Kate M. Brewer (13 Apr 1841 - 1910)

MARRIAGE: 6 Oct 1874

W. Roy Tower (11 Jun 1876 - 17 Oct 1881)
Tower (6 Jan 1878 - 6 Jan 1878)

                                                                                          _Benjamin Tower _____+
                                                                                         | (1673 - 1743) m 1697
                                                                    _Joseph Tower _______|_Deborah Whipple ____
                                                                   | (1721 - 1761) m 1743  (1681 - 1755)       
                                             _Joseph Tower ________|
                                            | (1746 - 1822) m 1768 |
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                                            |                      |_Judith Briggs ______|_____________________
                                            |                         m 1743                                   
                       _Joseph Tower _______|
                      | (1769 - 1840) m 1796|
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                      |                     |_Ellen Mason _________|
                      |                       (1748 - 1816) m 1768 |
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 _Joseph Tower _______|
| (1811 - ....) m 1840|
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|                     |_Priscilla Edmonds __|
|                       (1777 - 1851) m 1796|
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|--Henry Clay Tower 
|  (1841 - 1923)
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|                                            _John Bates __________|
|                                           |  m 1775              |
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|                      _Elias Bates ________|
|                     | (1778 - 1857)       |
|                     |                     |                                             _John Burlingame ____+
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|                     |                     |                       _John Burlingame ____|_Sarah Briggs _______
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|                     |                     |_Sibbel Burlingame ___|
|                     |                        m 1775              |
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|                     |                                            |_Elizabeth Plimpton _|_____________________
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|_Sarah Ann Bates ____|
  (1821 - 1872) m 1840|
                      |                                                                   _William Whipple ____+
                      |                                                                  | (1685 - 1746) m 1708
                      |                                             _John Whipple _______|_Mary _______________
                      |                                            | (1715 - ....)                             
                      |                      _Christopher Whipple _|
                      |                     | (1745 - 1808) m 1767 |
                      |                     |                      |                      _____________________
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                      |                     |                      |_Sarah Peck _________|_____________________
                      |                     |                        (1720 - ....)                             
                      |_Nancy Whipple ______|
                        (1782 - 1850)       |
                                            |                                             _John Burlingame ____+
                                            |                                            | (1690 - 1755)       
                                            |                       _John Burlingame ____|_Sarah Briggs _______
                                            |                      | (1712 - 1786)         (1690 - 1773)       
                                            |_Sarah Burlingame ____|
                                              (1752 - 1845) m 1767 |
                                                                   |                      _____________________
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                                                                   |_Elizabeth Plimpton _|_____________________

Notes

!SOURCE: Israel Wilkinson, _Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America_ (Jacksonville, Ill.: Davis & Penniman, 1869), p. 290.

!RESIDENCES: Ira, Vermont. --I. Wilkinson

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Christopher Whipple," emailed by Ann Winder (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 11 Sep 1998.

!SOURCE: Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy: An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass. (Cambridge: University Press, 1891), p. 354, 535.

!SOURCE: Email from Matthew O. Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 6 Jun 2020. Cites Find a Grave web site memorial 59350908.

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